What Is Holy Fire® Reiki & Karuna Reiki®
A Guide for Healers, Seekers, and Spiritual Entrepreneurs
Reiki has become one of the most powerful tools for self-healing, emotional regulation, spiritual awakening, and creating deeper connection with your soul. But as more people step into their healing journey, two advanced forms of Reiki continue to rise in popularity: Holy Fire® Reiki and Karuna Reiki®.
As a Reiki Master and teacher, I’ve witnessed firsthand how deeply these frequencies shift people — on all levels: physical, emotional, mental, energetic, ancestral, and spiritual. If you’re curious about the difference between these two systems and whether they’re right for you… this guide is for you.
Let’s dive in.
What Is Holy Fire® Reiki?
Holy Fire® Reiki is a modern, high-frequency evolution of traditional Usui Reiki, first introduced by the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT). It carries a refined, elevated, and deeply nurturing energy — often described as warm, purifying, intelligent, and divinely guided.
If Usui Reiki feels like a gentle, flowing river…
Holy Fire® Reiki feels like a column of pure light cleansing and realigning you from the inside out.
Characteristics of Holy Fire® Reiki:
When your nervous system is overloaded, you’re often walking around with your emotional volume turned all the way up. The smallest thing—a text, a tone of voice, a look—can set you off. This isn’t a reflection of who you are; it’s your unprocessed stress and exhaustion taking control.
1. It Works With Divine Consciousness
The energy is believed to come directly from a higher level of spiritual awareness — a frequency that knows exactly what the recipient needs without force or direction.
2. Deep Nervous System Healing
Holy Fire® is incredibly soothing for stress, anxiety, emotional triggers, and the parts of us that feel unsafe. Many students describe it as “returning home to themselves.”
3. Powerful for Trauma Healing & Inner Child Work
Because of its refined frequency, Holy Fire® helps release old pain, dissolve limiting beliefs, repair the subconscious, and restore your sense of wholeness.
4. No Attunements — Only Placements & Ignitions
Unlike traditional Reiki attunements, Holy Fire® uses placements and ignitions, which are guided meditations that allow the energy to be received directly through Divine guidance.
This creates a more gentle yet profound integration.
5. Accelerated Growth for Practitioners
Many practitioners experience intuitive expansion, clearer channeling, stronger healing abilities, and increased confidence in their gifts.
What Is Karuna Reiki®?
Karuna Reiki® is considered the next level after Holy Fire® III Master — often called the Reiki of Compassion.
While Holy Fire® works like a cleansing flame of higher consciousness…
Karuna Reiki® feels like being embraced by unconditional compassion and multidimensional healing.
This system was also developed by the ICRT and introduces eight additional symbols that each carry their own specific energetic purpose. These symbols work on a deeper, often more shadow-oriented layer.
Characteristics of Karuna Reiki®:
1. Healing with Compassion
Karuna means “compassionate action,” and this energy moves with the intention to relieve suffering — not only for you, but for others, your lineage, and even collective energies.
2. Multi-Level Healing
Karuna Reiki® works through layers, accessing physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions all at once.
It’s powerful for:
Ancestral and generational trauma
Deep emotional wounds
Shadow work
Dissolving subconscious patterns
Soul retrieval
Karmic healing
3. Eight Advanced Symbols
Each symbol has a unique purpose — from grounding to emotional clearing to past-life healing.
Together, they create a profoundly supportive and transformative experience.
4. Activates Higher Gifts & Intuition
Karuna Reiki® practitioners often report:
Enhanced intuition
Stronger channeling abilities
Clearer connection with guides and higher realms
Higher capacity to hold space for others
5. Gentle Yet Potent
Even though it's powerful, Karuna feels soft, loving, safe, and deeply compassionate. It supports you in releasing what you've been scared to face… in a way that feels nurturing.
Holy Fire® Reiki vs. Karuna Reiki® — What’s the Difference?
Here’s the simplest way to understand the difference:
Holy Fire® Reiki purifies, heals, and elevates your consciousness.
Karuna Reiki® expands your healing, deepens shadow work, and activates multidimensional transformation.
Holy Fire® is the foundation.
Karuna is the upgrade.
Holy Fire® aligns you.
Karuna evolves you.
Holy Fire® returns you to safety and your authentic self.
Karuna helps you embody your higher self and soul purpose.
Many healers choose to learn Holy Fire® first — then naturally feel called to Karuna when they’re ready to go deeper.
Why Healers & Spiritual Entrepreneurs Love These Systems
In my trainings and retreats, students often share that learning Holy Fire® and Karuna Reiki® changed:
Their confidence
Their spiritual gifts
Their ability to hold space for clients
Their intuitive business paths
Their emotional and nervous system regulation
The depth of their healing sessions
These systems support you in becoming a clear, aligned, grounded, intuitive, and heart-centered healer.
If you’re already a spiritual entrepreneur, the upgrades to your channel are noticeable — in your sessions, content, leadership, visibility, and abundance.
Who Are These Reiki Systems For?
Both Holy Fire® and Karuna Reiki® are perfect for you if you are:
✨ A healer ready to deepen your gifts
✨ A practitioner wanting stronger tools and symbols
✨ On your own self-healing journey
✨ Wanting to learn energy work for personal growth
✨ Feeling called to spiritual leadership
✨ Ready to release past patterns and step into your higher self
✨ Looking to start or expand a healing business
✨ Wanting to host retreats, circles, or work with clients
You do not have to want to be a practitioner.
These energies are just as powerful for your personal healing and transformation.
Holy Fire® Reiki and Karuna Reiki® are more than healing systems — they’re initiations into higher consciousness, deeper compassion, and a life aligned with your soul.
These frequencies have transformed thousands of healers around the world, myself included.
If you’re feeling called… it’s for a reason. Your soul always knows the next step.